Automotive Action Painting | George Barber
UK | 2006 | 6mins | colour | sound
In Automotive Action Painting a man arrives in a van by the side of a road in the early hours of the morning. He takes out various pots of paint and starts to throw colour on the road. Understandably, motorists avoid him. As the light rises, along with the level of traffic, the cars spread the paint along the surface of the road, creating an abstract smear of vibrant colour.

Priya | Alia Syed
UK | 2012 | 12mins | colour | silent | 16mm
Priya observes from overhead a woman in a rapturous dance. Priya and the photographic series of the same name are created from 16mm film that has been buried in Syed’s garden, wrapped in combinations of leaves, earth and biodegradable waste from her kitchen. This collaboration with nature and time has contributed and erased, producing the unexpected. The dark and evocative works are the traces left from repeated entombments, subtly suggesting past histories and visualizing time and memory.

Divinations | Storm De Hirsch
USA |1964 | 6mins | colour | sound | 16mm
Music: Ritual chant of Maori medicine man and Sicilian tarantella on Jews harp.
A film poem that records a psychic event in colour, shape and sound. The inner eye reveals its visionary powers through a series of mystical signs and symbols, a collage of negative and positive images, incantations and sorcery. S.D.H.

untitled | Dallas Simpson et al
UK | 2016 | 2mins | colour | silent | 16mm
A film made by participants in the scratch and draw film workshop led by Dallas Simpson at the Primary Commoners' Fair last year.

Babobilicons | Daina Krumins
USA | 1981 | 15mins | colour | sound | 16mm
Babobilicons is a surrealist work in terms of its process and product. Krumins took nine years to make this animated short, yet her method is in line with the surrealist affinity for chance operation. She cultivated slime moulds on Quaker Five-Minute Oats in her basement, planted hundreds of phallic stinkhorn mushrooms, and put her mother behind the camera to film them growing. The results are sexual and bizarre. She combines ordinary objects – wall sockets, candles and peeling paint – to get unnerving, dreamlike images. Porcelain fish jump through waves, mushroom erections rise and fall. Her Babobilicons – robotlike characters that resemble coffee pots with lobster claws – move through all this with mysterious determination.